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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction is a memoir by David Sheff that describes how his family dealt with his son Nic's methamphetamine addiction. It was published by Houghton Mifflin on February 26, 2008. The book grew out of the article "My Addicted Son" that Sheff had written for The New York Times Magazine in 2005. Son Nic Sheff's perspective was told in his own memoir Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, published concurrently by an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

“I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.”

David Sheff Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

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“Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”

David Sheff Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

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“A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.”

David Sheff Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

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“An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.”

David Sheff Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

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